By Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal

May 19th 2011, Los Angeles CA: Listen to Esa as he talks about the concept for the new album 'The Beginning Of Times', working with a ghost lyricist, time spent on the writing and recording process, Marco Hietala as a producer, recording a Doors cover on the previous release, tour preparations, plans for a US tour, an interesting story from their previous US tour, the Ritchie Blackmore influence, and possibility of working on other projects like Chaosbreed.